Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
TONI MORRISONThere is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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